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Liberty Teller deploys third Bitcoin kiosk in Boston area

May 7, 2014

Liberty Teller, which late last year launched the first Bitcoin vending machine in the U.S., is deploying its third kiosk in the Boston area.

Moksa, a pan-Asian restaurant in the Central Square neighborhood of Cambridge, Mass., will host the machine inside its storefront. The restaurant accepts Bitcoin as payment for meals. Liberty Teller also has kiosks near Harvard University and inside Boston's South Station transportation terminal.

Consumers can turn cash into Bitcoin and store them in a virtual wallet or a paper wallet with a QR code printed on it that Liberty Teller provides at its locations. Users can later transfer the QR code's information to a virtual wallet on their smartphone.

"Cambridge and Boston are starting to become a major hub of bitcoin activity," Chris Yim, co-founder of Liberty Teller, said in a press release. "The MIT Expo this past Saturday was a prime example of that. We have been going to meetups for a while now, and every few months it seems like the attendance doubles. People are starting to see how bitcoin could do to value what the Internet did to information."

The newest Liberty Teller kiosk will be located inside Moksa at 450 Massachusetts Ave in Cambridge. Locations and hours of operations for all Liberty Teller kiosks, along with tutorials on bitcoin, can be found at http://www.libertyteller.com.